Lot 883: GEOMETRY AND ASTRONOMY--SEVERT, JACQUES.

De orbis catoptrici seu mapparum mundi descriptione... Editio secunda. Paris: A. Drouart, 1598, [12], 332[=232], [12]pp., title in red and black, illustration : woodcut maps on pp. 96 & 100 (Gemma Frisius map, see Karrow p.211) with moveable pointers, woodcut diagrams etc.

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Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552). Instrumentum sinuum. (G. von Peurbach. Tractatus super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis). Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1541, 2 parts (ff. [44]; [28]), G4 blank (lacking), title in red and black, illustration: woodcut diagrams, [IA 106.434], contemporary annotations

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de. Textus de sphera [etc., edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples]. (Paris: H. Estienne, 10 May 1516), ff. 32, illustration: woodcut frame to title, woodcut diagrams etc., extensive contemporary annotations, [Renouard, Estienne 1516/9; Moreau 1476; Shaaber 328]

Guglielmini, Domenico (1655-1710). De cometarum natura. Bologna: heirs of D. Barberi, 1681, [2], 21, [1]pp., illustration: 2 engraved plates

Fernel, Jean (1497-1558). Monalosphaerium. Paris: S. de Colines, 1526 (7 March 1527), ff. [6], 36, illustration: title within a strapwork frame, woodcut diagrams etc., [Renouard, Colines, p.85]

5 works in one volume, folio (297 x 193mm.), binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf, speckled edges